The Nicholls State football team will be in the national spotlight tomorrow as the Colonels will host Incarnate Word on national TV. Andre Champagne (SHOM-pahn) has the story.
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A close call for a 15-year-old Lake Charles girl as she waited for her school bus yesterday morning. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule in football next season and LSU is excited about it. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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The Nicholls State football team will host one of its biggest games in Thibodeaux ever tomorrow. The Colonels face the fourth-ranked Incarnate Word Cardinals, and the game will be nationally televised on ESPN2. Athletic director Jonathan Terrell (tuh-RELL) says the team was excited when it found out its game would be on national television.
It is not often that Nicholls is able to showcase its football program coast to coast. Terrell says they jumped at the chance to play in Week Zero on national T-V.
It’s also a new era of Nicholls football as Tommy Rybacki begins his first year as head coach, replacing the school’s all-time wins leader, Tim Rebowe. Terrell says Rybacki is the perfect successor to Rebowe.
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Kick off tomorrow is at noon.
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A close call for a 15-year-old Lake Charles girl, as she escapes a would-be kidnapper at a bus stop. Lake Charles Police Lieutenant Brenda Treadway says it happened at around 6:30 yesterday morning.
Treadway says around the third or fourth time he passed by her, 35-year-old Dustin Frederick stopped, got out, approached her, grabbed her and told her that she needed a ride. But Treadway says the girl was having none of that.
Video evidence near the scene helped police identify Frederick and take him into custody. He’s charged with one count of attempted kidnapping, and he’s behind bars on one-million dollars bond. Treadway says this should serve as a stark reminder that kids need to be vigilant at all times while waiting for the school bus.
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If you don’t have your hurricane preparedness kit put together for this year, this weekend would be a very good weekend to shop for those essentials. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says now that we’re into late August, the peak of hurricane season is rapidly approaching.
Activity is ramping up in the Atlantic. Hurricane Erin is wreaking havoc along the Atlantic coast with powerful waves and rip currents as it moves away from the U.S. Keim says there are three additional disturbances in the Atlantic that the National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on.
Keim says this year, it looks like we will enter the month of September unscathed, but that certainly does not mean that we’re out of the woods.
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The Southeastern Conference announces that starting in 2026 the league will have a nine-game conference schedule in football. The SEC has been playing eight conference games since 1992. LSU Executive Deputy Director of Athletics Verge Ausberry says a ninth conference game will help generate revenue for the SEC and LSU…
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The SEC says each school will play three annual opponents focused on maintaining traditional rivalries. Ausberry says LSU does not know the three schools that the Tigers will play every year
Not only will SEC teams play nine conference games starting next year, the league is also requiring each team to play a non-conference game against a school from another Power Four conference or Notre Dame each season.
That leaves just two games on the schedule against a mid-major or an FCS school. Ausberry says the SEC’s TV partners will appreciate having more compelling matchups
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The Saints acquired Devaughn Vele (VAY-lay) from Denver in exchange for a fourth round pick in 2026 and a seventh round pick in 2027. Vele fits a need for a big and physical receiver that New Orleans was missing as he is six-foot-five and 210 pounds. Coach Kellen Moore says the offense will benefit from the addition.
Moore announced that second-year quarterback Spencer Rattler will start the final preseason game for the Saints on Saturday against the Broncos. The first year head coach says Rattler’s ability to extend plays with his legs has stood out.
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Kick off Saturday is at noon.
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Southern begins its football season on Saturday by playing North Carolina Central in Atlanta in the MEAC-SWAC Challenge. The game will be televised on ESPN and Coach Terrance Graves is looking forward to putting on a show.
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Southern went 8-and-5 last season, while the Eagles were 8-and-3 last season.